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The inner game of music

by Barry Green

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  • nilram · Sep 19, 2016 · Recommends

    I read "The Inner Game of Music" ages ago and found it helpful to my choral singing at the time. It's probably been revised since I read it, but more than one of the reviews on Goodreads suggest that reading the original one on Tennis…

    on “The Inner Game of Everything: 1974 Tennis Book Is Still a Sensation” ↗
  • josephg · Nov 18, 2023 · Mentions

    …much you get in your own way. Gallaway says everyone focuses on the outer game. And ignores the inner game. And that inner game is what stops most people from learning tennis. I’ve been reading The inner game of music lately, which was inspired by the inner game of tennis. There was an exercise in the first chapter - which I did and it made me cry. He said to just sit down at my instrument and play anything, while…

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